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I’ve spent the past couple of weeks watering someone else’s garden. (This isn’t some ~deep~ metaphor, I’ve literally been watering someone else’s garden.) My daughter agreed to water her boyfriend’s parent’s garden while they’ve been...
My colleague Warren of ICastLight was kind enough to send me a copy of the MERP module The Haunted Ruins of the Dunlendings. MERP modules can be a little hit or miss, but I thought two of the three adventures were pretty good! Of course,...
For all of my side projects, I recently moved away from classic semantic versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH) to a more liberating CalVer one (YYYY.MM.RELEASE (PATCH)). Wait, why did I say liberating? I know it sounds stupid, especially for...
It's been awhile since my last essay on religion, and while I've shared my personal testimony and death rituals from around the world, I haven't written about the fascinating origins of religion. I know what you're thinking, how it's...
This is my 8th blog post for the Blaugust 2026 community blogging project. Join me all this month for more blogging. Today I am celebrating the one-year anniversary of the next chapter of my life: retirement. I am having a great...
Unlike in many parts of the world, public housing in Singapore doesn't not carry any negative connotations. In fact close to 80% of the resident population lives in public housing. Built by the Housing Development Board, or HDB, these...
"I have a bad experience with the company you work for." That's one of the first things a client told me today. I sat down and asked what had happened. Early on, it was clear that it all came down to one thing: Bad communication. After...
Players: Osric III of Kikstahta, Swashbuckler (EvilTables); Grappadora Hamaques, Swashbuckler (Jay_zer0); Buster Diamantis, Theurge (Mistuh) SummaryAfter raiding the Xanthic Vault, the adventurers spent some downtime (from mid-July to...
Yesterday I published a spicy tale of an App Store fraud perpetrated by a developer deep into AI slop. My blog post was linked by Daring Fireball and 9to5Mac, which I appreciate! Coincidentally, on the same day well-known developer Marco...
The hacking of HuggingFace by an internal OpenAI model, and more importantly the internal events that led to that and the fallout from it, remain the thing that matters. It turns out that OpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those...
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. II, Chapter 19, § 233 (tr. Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway): Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to the dramatic arts, since what...
No, I don’t mean video games about juggling. I mean the way that I play video games is pure chaos. I have a tendency to play multiple games simultaneously. I also have a tendency to want to check out new things constantly. This often...
Yesterday, while most people were off out to go see an eclipse, I went into town (well, okay, the city) to go check out a yearly craft fair held in the old quarter, Plein Arts. This year it’s being held in a huge aircraft-sized tent just...
We played the sixteenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as follows:Llombaerth, CG elf thief 4 (Adam)Mirkle, N human...
This is Never Enough, by The Cure. This appeared on a comp album they put out called Mixed Up, where they had a bunch of different artists re-imagine earlier work, and was an extended version of a new single. My roommate bought the album...